Category: History - Other
Boys who don't like history need not read this chapter, for in it we tell how the steam engine began, and if it never had begun, you know, there would never have been any engineers, nor any necessity for writing this book.
As a preparatory step toward becoming an engineer, it is highly desirable for the boy who looks forward to that honorable calling to familiarize himself with the different parts...
7. CHAPTER VII.Let us now bear the conclusion of the whole matter, which takes us straight back to where we started, and we again repeat if you want to become an engineer make up your mind tha...
5. CHAPTER V.It would seem as though any fool might know this, yet instances are on record where careless engineers have actually pulled out of a station without their trains, and never disc...
3. CHAPTER III.A boy who looks forward to the honorable calling should be of robust health and perfect physically. If these conditions do not exist, he should abandon the thought at once, and...
4. CHAPTER IV.Before going to his engine an engineer should, for his own safety, as well as that of the public, visit the special and general notice boards and post himself fully upon the run...
1. CHAPTER I.Boys who don't like history need not read this chapter, for in it we tell how the steam engine began, and if it never had begun, you know, there would never have been any engine...
2. CHAPTER II.In order to become an engineer, the first thing necessary is to gain a thorough understanding of the peculiarly complicated machine which it is the duty of engineers to control.